Focus Area: Assistive technology
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Meet the spring 2019 Innovation Catalysts student grant winners
The nine chosen projects sprung from various sources of inspiration, from a classroom to a camping trip, but all are united by a drive to use technology and design to benefit an individual, a community, or society at large.
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Introducing the fall 2018 Innovation Catalysts grant winners
The nine projects in this grant cycle will tackle a wide range of design and technology challenges this fall, from developing wireless underwater communication to exploring speculative futures for biosensing in public spaces.
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Innovation Catalysts program boosts student innovations
This spring, ten diverse student teams unlocked potential in their design projects with support from a new grant program.
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Getting Back2Bed: The story of how we are helping everyone sit up
A team from the Jacobs Institute’s Global Product Development course reflects on their project’s progress, including lessons learned during a field trip to Hong Kong and China.
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Student Project Honored in 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards
The Universal Socket Prosthetic, a student project developed in a course held at Jacobs Hall, has been named a student finalist in Fast Company’s 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards.
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Million Hands: A prosthetic finger for everyone
Over the course of the spring semester, Global Product Development students will share updates and reflections on their projects and insights. In the second post of this series, the Million Hands team shares how they’re refining their process in response to insights from the class.
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Watch: EnableTech
California Magazine — This video takes a look at student group EnableTech and how it’s creating new assistive technologies.